and now everything is being put into a massive cloud of dust on our teeth corresponded with north korea keeps its end of the bargain with the u.s. by destroying its nuclear test site. just hours after the demolition counseled a potentially historic u.s. north korea summit leaving wondering if it's the separates where all but. it's a program the french president joins vladimir putin up the international economic forum in st petersburg where their discussions have ranged from u.s. sanctions strengthening by law for relations we'll have more on the rest of the

forum developments. while billionaire philanthropist the belong muska rips into reporters he wants to thoroughly rate journalists credibility but some who've tried before just we're. live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my name's union o'neill welcome to the program the first pictures showing the destruction of north korea's only nuclear test site have been released our correspondent. was among the small pool of journalists invited to witness the facility being decommissioned. just minutes ago they were having dinner over there and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust those barracks were used for living for the soldiers to al

to locate soldiers and workers there well now north korea is showing that it is destroying the infrastructure to behind these northern tunnel number two that's where five nuclear tests five most recent nuclear tests have been conducted out of four tunnels around here this one got the most battering so basically this is north korea saying look we are ready to make the first step but this is the first step that we're making to show that we are acting in good faith we're destroying all the facilities we are being told that what has been done today has rendered this site absolutely useless now they're expecting more to come out from the united states and the international community but everything here is happening amid the atmosphere of uncertainty the latest rhetoric by the u.s. president donald trump and he's a pale we are hearing from north koreans that this is putting the whole thing in jeopardy they don't know what to expect they are saying that well how can the

united states be trusted after you run after they pulled out of the iran deal that was negotiated four years they're saying how can the united states be trusted when they are saying that the libya model should be applied to north korea so right now again here we are being shown that they're being destroyed and north korea is saying that well the ball is in somebody else's court now and we've done of reporting from north korea pyongyang at a nuclear test site r.t. however just hours after north korea closed down the site donald trump announced he's canceling his upcoming summit with kim jong il it was scheduled to take place in singapore in june reacting to the move north korea questioned if it was right to . made efforts for the peace talks in the first place it insisted. the intent was still there to solve problems the us president did later explain why he decided

to pull large repeatedly mentioning the strength of the american military while doing so. our military which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world powerful anywhere in the world is ready if this is and has been greatly enhanced recently as you well know as you well know already we are more ready than we have ever been before our military as you know has been greatly enhanced greatly enhanced will soon be at a level that it's never been before never been before powerful anywhere in the world a lot of things can happen just as the world was building up to a historic meeting between north korea and the us america pulls out of the historic summit so what happened well kim jong un released three american prisoners and he destroyed a nuclear test site but in trunks of you he's still too hostile sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel

it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting that's in response to pyongyang referring to the vice president of the united states as a political dummy that was after mike pence said that a possible libya situation might be the response if north korea and the u.s. can't make a deal diplomatic threats or a subtle march and this one comes courtesy of the trumpet ministration this will only and like the libyan model ended if kim jong un doesn't make a deal i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libya model now that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely dropping out of a historic meeting is a pretty regretful decision but it's also an opportunity to flaunt your nuclear powers apparently you talk about your nuclear capabilities but i was so massive and powerful di pray to god they would never have to be used as shocking as trump's decision might be what was washington's plan all along was this perhaps all just

a big bluff they certainly got off on the right foot with north korea north korea has announced they would use months when you can site this month ahead of the big summit. and you need two of thank you a very smart and gracious gesture and then when your rival least expects that you strike them down very hollywood. we would be the nominee and you would join hands. that you sit and listen to. so looks like trump got what he wanted and then at the last minute he landed a sucker punch is what they call the old bait and switch in the business world it's pretty clear that there most of the people around president trump did not want this summit to take place and they were horrified at the thought the trump would sit across the table i die from kim jong un and agree to something that they may not

have approved of so i think there's a lot of relief in washington that this has collapsed they want a libyan solution to north korea and where libya gives up it where they can north korea gives up his weapons but then is vulnerable to regime change and i think that is the underlying reality on the american side that led to the collapse of this talk. let's dial this story further and join political analyst chris bambery live on the program chris welcome. i suppose in terms of polling the plug in this everybody's in limbo aren't they because north korea say it's still open to talks do you think talks could get back on track. possibly go back and try but i think you've got to factor in here the two pressures which are operating on on trump i think he believes post the way that he could pull off something like the nixon kissinger trip to china if you remember in one nine hundred seventy s.

when they went secret president nixon went secretly to china and recognized the people's republic of china a dramatic u. turn a big personal and risky initiative and troubling to do some of that and he was backed up by the south koreans who helped broker that deal with north korea but against that you've got to put as mentioned in your package the opposition of key figures from the vice president an offense advisor the pentagon the intelligence agency whole sections of the republican party the neo cons base that way who don't want any dealings with north korea and do want in the chilly words this would be an option and we should remember you know julian or remember what happened to gadhafi he was shot dead after being bombed by the by the french you know no one wants this options the witchery threatening that we're going to bring you down so i think there's two pressures here and i should add backed up by japan which almost a does not want the deal so i think you're trumpeter as always in this presidency he's realizing that he's not just is own man here it is checksum of the terms of

the constitution but also checks in terms of the people around him many of whom don't support this sort of an initiative so it could get back on track this quite a lot infighting going on in washington over this the timing of this chris was quite remarkable was ned you know destroyed its nuclear test site it say's it's only one i think that has been clarified today as well and then all of a sudden trump told side of this historic summit it would lead to the question what more could they have done to get trump on side if it was possible at all. well in terms of media manipulation it was very effective because what it did was drive off the blowing up of and you could say in north korea off the headlines and everything focused on what trump was saying so is effective in that sense but i think i think it is very deliberate as well in doing doing that but i think it's becoming difficult because once you have this sort of megaphone diplomacy those comments

we're getting from the pay of various people the response calling the vice president a dummy it's very difficult to move on i hope we can move on i hope you know it's hard to recall just a few you know we can above all go there was talk of trump getting a nobel peace prize these talks i hope we can return to this but i have to say it would indicate to me that in terms of the balance of forces in the white house and washington in general the trump has been if you're forced to accept. that the opposition to peace negotiations because that's what they are with north korea is is too great they had to accept that that we are in the south koreans very bitter indeed well i'll just going to talk about that there's a lot of different aspects to this including as you just said their side create their president said he regrets trumps decision how does the cancellation of the summit effects seoul and its ties with the u.s. chris. i think you again in south korea i mean that there is

a strong element of korean nationalism here and there's always been are a supply of people one thing unity of of the potential i know it's easy enough to blame north korea and of course you know the previous support of the soviet union china for that but of course the americans have a role to play the americans have a visible presence which is not always popular in south korea so there is nationalist politics and the fact as i mentioned japan is backing labs in japan is back in trouble absence of fuel because there's a lot of tension over that because of the role of japan during the second world war before in cold eyes in korea in the bitterness that created so it wouldn't be that difficult you know to whip up an anti-american feeling in south korea look our national is that a nationalist bases so i think it cannot be a point well in south korea to be honest in the reports we're reading from the popular mood seems to be that of course there will be. trouble support is there as well but if i was the president of south korea i'd be very upset and having

brokered this deal trump is afraid to be told it out without reference to even telling me a strange is this miss. could somebody be interested in actually jeopardizing a peace effort that war is more valuable than actually peace happening in that region. well i think you know if you were into conspiracy theories i think you'd look at what's happened in the middle east in say one sense what the americans don't live by their intervention military intervention in the middle east is create chaos but chaos is preferable to having strong nation states which could challenge the united states or indeed its proto israel in that region so you might conclude that really the best of the deal is and the this is an allergy with libya it's quite chilly and because you know what we've had is the destruction of it to have a country normally exists as a nation state it's collapsed you know with all sorts of knock on effects which europeans have to deal with in terms of migrant crisis but of course the americans do it so in that sense if one says the american the europeans pick up the bill

there but the americans don't so sometimes for the americans for now it is chaos might be better that alone these nation states the cockle who. states and i think this you know the constant references to libya are quite chilling yet tiic into the country libyan references you take into account that a lot had been planned for this summit to go ahead now it's very much in limbo if it doesn't or it doesn't it look like it's going to in the future where there's lot leave the situation on the korean peninsula or could things actually worsen. i think things would very easily water and if the north koreans the say to pull back from this the who will treat into the larger they were there before if you're talking a hope we don't know exactly what they've done in terms of nuclear installations but he could return to doing that i think it's interesting as well the north koreans of reference the iran nuclear deal or the tearing up by trump of that is again a warning about how much value can you place in any agreements you have with the

united states so i think the korean peninsula has been a potential flashpoint ever since the the armistice that the korean war never ended it just sort of came to if you like sport spluttered to hold it is a fantastically militarized area and also it's an area of increasing international tension if you look at the so china seizure with the tensions in the people's republic and japan philippines and taiwan all of these are words this is an area of growing concern the obama administration of the famous pivot moving away from the middle east to focusing on this region and the americans got a lot of interest here of course that the north koreans are still tied to the chinese and that's another factor in this adding to the instability so we're talking about and instead unstable potential and a grueling instability inside that region which has the potential the potential not doesn't actually have to have a bit of tension to bring china and america face to face so yes i think we should be worried i think all of us should be hoping these talks get back on track and he

has a lot of repercussions as there is a to to to something like that chris political analyst chris always good to have you on the program shedding a little bit of lights on there the big stories of the day thanks chris. australia and the netherlands are now directly accusing russia of being involved in the dawning of malaysian airlines flight m h seventeen over eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen russia's foreign minister has already discussed the move with his dutch counterpart saying they had failed to provide any evidence for their claim our europe correspondent peter all over spoke to me earlier on this. the netherlands and australia have said that they hold russia legally responsible for the deaths of two hundred ninety eight people that were on board a malaysian airlines flight m.h. seventeen when it went down over eastern ukraine now this announcement from. there and the hague comes after the joint investigation team put forward their latest

findings and their investigation into the downing of this craft the aircraft what we heard from the head of the j.i.t. was that they still had no still couldn't confirm who shot down the plane or why the plane had been targeted in the first place. the questions everyone wants answered from day one are why was flight m h seventeen should down and who is responsible for this appalling act i can't give you the answers to these specific questions to date the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he said that there was no evidence of russian involvement that russia was ready to help with the investigation but it must remain transparent or must become transparent to the russian side on thursday now following its lengthy statement from the joint investigation team we heard from the russian ministry of defense now they had numerous issues with the evidence that was provided by the joint investigation team they said this the allegations were put forward of

a russian missile launcher leaving a base in course making its way into ukraine and then heading back to that base in course squaw's and true that the brigade implicated in the the documents put forward in the images put forward by the investigation team weren't correct that book missile launcher that particular brigade had never left the country also on the missile casing which was also presented to the press on thursday this misallocating is believed to be understood to be from the investigators point of view the casing from the missile that was used to shoot down the. playing now the russian side they question where this misallocation came from in fact actually accused the ukrainian side of having passed it over to the investigators but we look up the missile casing itself it gives us a lot more clues about where it may have come from now what we do know about it is that the casing show is a casing for a book nine nine m three a. ok we're breaking into that piece because live

to some petersburg international economic former president putin is addressing delegates i guess let's listen. to our impressions as to hold of foreign works and madam guard just mentioned how she was surprised by this positive atmosphere and such a discussion such an informal conversation and especially important today were listed off international political economic and trade relations to you that you undergoes a serious stress test and the conditions for conducting business for investments some are very day to day life is changing dynamic ali so the quality there is really ends the nature and the speed of global economic growth is defined to a greater degree nowadays by new competences and skills their advanced technologies in communications which up until recently it has been hard to mate with those who can't efficiently use as there's growth factors that would ensure that leap is

economically socially sane to think and it occasionally and will help to boost the quality of life but we have marked these goals as a national priority and very soon the newly formed government in russia will transform into specific programs of actions like a big national project and but legal incentives they need to allocate the required resources as well in our development will precede from our human creative and human resources capital that we are ready to learn and to adapt the best. practices around the globe and of course use our own successful experience of resolving the most complex structural tarski use we will proceed from our national interests and this is natural for any serene state but our interests can be in violence differently as they are around the globe you can either ignore others or respect

the position of your partners. we understand that the modern world is very much interconnected and their countries are interdependent and each state including the world's leading power bear the blunt of a colossal responsibility for our common future and russia is part of the global economy we actively take part in it to gratian only project we're also a major influence on energy food and other markets our country and our companies are very deeply involved into international trade finance and industrial ties that is why we are following attentively what economic technological social growth strategists ought to be implemented in other countries. and undoubtedly we are not impartial as to what global trends will pan out in long term. you know what is up until recently where the global development was based on to phyllis but in you so that's the freedom of interpreter ship trade and investment but it is enshrined in

. the role also adopted by the players on the international arena and secondly there is elian simply looked ability of these frauds which is supported by barely a very clear legal mechanisms based on this values and principles the global economy despite their recognized problems has managed to achieve impressive results to put on the development track the overwhelming majority of the international players the majority of countries. however today we do not see the erosion of. that if we regrettably we see the true demotivation all. those principles the system of much little cooperation build over a d. case instead of a natural needed evolution is now being broken roughly broken free. the neural nowadays is to break the rules in the market openness and honesty of competitiveness is pushed out by withdrawal restrictions and sanctions you can

apply different terms but the essence is the same there are no official tool of trade policy for many countries. and other states just have to adapt to that to respond. to use your mirror measures because it i would like to draw your attention to one very poignant fact just recently every meeting also leaders of the g twenty or. other summits ended in a joint statement on the non introduction of new protectionism barriers. indeed to these statements. did not have any legal force but new barriers in trade are still being erected but simply today we cannot even decide on even such balik steps to be taken not an example that increase in the speed of issues and you agreements on free trade this process started some five or seven years ago in

twenty ten the w t o notified more than such such agreements and last year only ten years ago and i have a feeling that they are going to use it keep falling in numbers and if previously the question protectionism was rampant such as additional employee duties technical requires requirements or hidden subsidies. then today we're talking about a new edition of protectionism on the use of the evidently far fetched excuses on references to the interests of national security and all. a lot in order to crush competitors or to extra water concessions this sanction and restriction spiral is only worsening and it gets more and more countries and more and more companies including votes who are sure that they would be immune to this regime of trade restrictions. but i believe that such problems would pass them by. however there

are a trade unearths and connivance breed the desires to use restriction toss time and time again left and right on any occasion. despite the political loyalty the talks of solidarity to previous agreements and their multi-year corp agreements. here we have many representatives of the business and you're well aware that the draw of one of the parties to the contract the destruction of their dream and translates into significant risks and expenses this is the axiom of global business practice. and on the global scope such behavior of states might lead to the most negative and destructive consequences and even now when the slight on the existing norms and the loss of mutual trust might be exacerbated by their and predictability then turbulence of the colossal

technological changes such a turn of events might lead to a systematic crisis which the world has not yet seen trees one of the roots of it is going to affect all of the players on the world economic arena global just trust. going to be put into question the prospects of the global growth the logic of the economic selfishness does not combine a wealth of the today's specialization of countries and companies with forging complex global industrial chains that might throw the global economy back into the far past. to the times when people lived off the land when people had to produce everything themselves and these undeniably leads to the fall and efficiency of global economy to losses in labor productivity to wasting that vance's of science or technology which could have changed the people's life for the better it is now

the awarding tread we are observing is that the stability of business ties is being undermined what integration processes are being strengthened the multilateral cooperation is being depreciated as well as the efficiency of international institutions and agreement in the international community cannot find acceptable solutions within the framework of the world trade organization which despite all the difficulties and all the differences is the key link in the global trade system which the most important universal platform for dispute resolution and forging dollars on the issues which concern all of the economic players. that is strange to eat but the w t o is far from perfect and yet there are no intractable problems within the w t o to discard it and not create anything in return means to destruct the balance and then the trade disputes would not have any plain tapes not any defendants on the force for decide who is right naturally we're not talking about freezing the existing order. to make dogmatic something that is

practically lifeless the world is changing and thus to institutions and rules true change as well one thing is clear this rule should be transparent and common for everyone and they should be observed by all the participants of international economic relationships what is also important is that we need to develop and implement a legitimate change mechanism within the framework to which the international community will be able to discard the outdated and inefficient and archaic norms but at the same time. i'm keeping the best. instruments in creating new instruments which are on par with more than requirements in this vein for global trade agenda especially relevant are the areas where the much retro rules of the game are only forming that is the development of new technological markets for example e-commerce

access to information and transparency as well the protection of intellectual property and consumer rights as well as new digital services negotiations on the majority of this topics have been launched it is evident that it would take a while we need to conduct far work we need patience and we need insistence but i would retire age when. there is no alternative to join drafting overawes and the global economy so it is simply nonexistence while we do that we do not need to trade wars and not even a temporary truce isn't trading loss we need a four time trade peace so the motto of this forum is a building trust economy. and i'm convinced that the better life itself he speaks of the need to make trust at the center for development when you just take a look at their high tech companies better start ups science innovative areas which are far ahead of the traditional legal cooperate regulations and the work of

fatness even though they might have difficult relationships in between themselves are based on mutual trust and i know that at the forum this topic was raised many a time. we are not trying to ideologue situation rivalry conflict of interest has always been present and will always be present but we need to respond active child to our ability to resolve our disputes. in a fair competition and not in limiting the competition defines further growth. this is the basis for firm and robust development of each and every country for the implementation of the colossal scientific and technological potential accumulated in the world russia supports free trade and economic integration we support constructive partner dialogue. we urge our partners from europe the us asia and

other regions of the world to move together to watch the implementation of the s.d. jesus to develop such a growth model which would be an adequate response to global challenges i'm talking about overcoming the inequality office but you need to use of resolving demographic and environmental problems of keeping national cultures and identities to boost the pressure parity of our people on the road use of the advantages of the new technological wave that you still curates of sustanon all countries in these or that combination all face all of this problem but we are unique in the fact that we face the whole gamut of those issues at once and in order to veer ourselves we need to resolve those tasks similar tenuously as well for us an undeniable value is to ensure the state serenity and to keep national identity at the same time we need to make a major leap in development to be among the world's leaders.